Xilinx and TSMC Team to Enable Fastest Time-to-Market and Highest Performance FPGAs on TSMC’s 16-nanometer FinFET
Xilinx ‘FinFast’ program to deliver test chips in 2013 and first product in 2014 SAN JOSE, Calif. and HSINCHU, Taiwan – May 29, 2013 - Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) and TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) announced that they are teaming together to create the fastest time-to-market and highest performance FPGAs to be built on TSMC’s 16-nanometer FinFET (16FinFET) process, a program Xilinx calls ‘FinFast.’ The two companies are providing dedicated resources as part of a ‘one-team’ approach, and will work together to co-optimize the FinFET process with Xilinx’s UltraScale™ architecture. The program